GMO: Stakeholders demand ban, raise health, food security concerns
- ✦The coalition, under the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, made the demand during a mass awareness rally last week in Lagos, where it submitted a joint position paper to the state legislature, urging lawmakers to restrict the cultivation of genetically modified crops and strengthen regulations governing genetically engineered foods.
- The GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, which said its position was endorsed by more than 70 organisations, maintained that protecting indigenous seeds and promoting sustainable farming systems were critical to Nigeria’s long-term food security.
- By Gabriel Ewepu and Cynthia Alo A coalition of scientists, farmers, environmentalists, nutritionists and civil society organisations has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly to ban genetically modified organisms, GMOs, in the state, warning of potential threats to public health, biodiversity, farmers’ livelihoods and food sovereignty.
- The coalition, under the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, made the demand during a mass awareness rally last week in Lagos, where it submitted a joint position paper to the state legislature, urging lawmakers to restrict the cultivation of genetically modified crops and strengthen regulations governing genetically engineered foods.
By Gabriel Ewepu and Cynthia Alo A coalition of scientists, farmers, environmentalists, nutritionists and civil society organisations has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly to ban genetically modified organisms, GMOs, in the state, warning of potential threats to public health,...
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The GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, which said its position was endorsed by more than 70 organisations, maintained that protecting indigenous seeds and promoting sustainable farming systems were critical to Nigeria’s long-term food security.
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By Gabriel Ewepu and Cynthia Alo A coalition of scientists, farmers, environmentalists, nutritionists and civil society organisations has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly to ban genetically modified organisms, GMOs, in the state, warning of potential threats to public health, biodiversity, farmers’ livelihoods and food sovereignty.
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The coalition, under the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, made the demand during a mass awareness rally last week in Lagos, where it submitted a joint position paper to the state legislature, urging lawmakers to restrict the cultivation of genetically modified crops and strengthen regulations governing genetically engineered foods.
